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Suddenly, Republican Tom Coburn has a lot of ideas about health care, and he’s demanding Congress vote on all of them, in a last-ditch attempt to derail the reconciliation bill. Coburn has proposed a slate of hard-to-vote-against amendments; if any of them pass, the bill will have to go back to the House for approval. They include:

No erectile dysfunction drugs for sex offenders: This amendment would also ban federal funding for abortion drugs.

Bureaucratic cap and trade: For every bureaucrat hired as a result of the law, one must be fired.

Implement Republican ideas President Obama has endorsed: Specifically those on reducing fraud and waste in Medicare and Medicaid.

Ensure nondiscrimination for providers refusing to perform abortions.

Exempt Class I medical devices from new taxation: Class I devices include band-aids, surgical gowns and wheelchairs.